Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
Abel Sanchez, trainer of IBF, WBA, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs), is hoping that Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) is as angry as he claims. According to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Canelo, his superstar fighter is furious with the middleweight champion and wants to blast him out.
Oscar De La Hoya feels Gennady Golovkin has done more than enough talking. It’s time, Canelo Alvarez’s promoter said, for Golovkin to channel his anger toward trying to knock out Alvarez in their middleweight championship rematch September 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Oscar De La Hoya disagrees with the prevailing opinion that Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin was a good fight, yet not a great one. Alvarez’s promoter still expects his fighter to move less and become more committed to knocking out Golovkin in their middleweight championship rematch. Neither fighter has ever been knocked out, but “The Golden Boy” believes that’ll change September 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (HBO Pay-Per-View).
The first encounter between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez was a solid twelve round fight but far from a classic. But with the animosity ramped up for the rematch, Golovkin's trainer Abel Sanchez believes we could be in for a much more entertaining and violent affair on September 15th.
Abel Sanchez Video Interview - Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will square off in their highly-anticipated rematch in September in Las Vegas. Last week, Oscar De La Hoya announced the tentative deal for a mid-September showdown at T-Mobile Arena after weeks of on-again and off-again bargaining by the two fighters' camps.
Tom Loeffler Video Interview - Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will square off in their highly-anticipated rematch in September in Las Vegas. Last week, Oscar De La Hoya announced the tentative deal for a mid-September showdown at T-Mobile Arena after weeks of on-again and off-again bargaining by the two fighters' camps.
Gennady Golovkin Video Interview - Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will square off in their highly-anticipated rematch in September in Las Vegas. Last week, Oscar De La Hoya announced the tentative deal for a mid-September showdown at T-Mobile Arena after weeks of on-again and off-again bargaining by the two fighters' camps.
On Monday afternoon, Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) and his team met with members of the media at the Palm Restaurant in Los Angeles, where he was presented with the Ring Magazine pound-for-pound belt. And of course, the media was there to talk about his September 15th rematch versus Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez that will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Gennady Golovkin still believes he is worth a 50-50 revenue split for his highly anticipated rematch with Canelo Alvarez. According to promoter Tom Loeffler, Golovkin forfeited that final five percent to Alvarez in negotiations Wednesday to stroke his rival’s ego. Loeffler discussed how the deal, which he declared “dead” earlier Wednesday, was finalized later that day during a press conference Monday in Los Angeles.
Gennady Golovkin still wants to fight Billy Joe Saunders. Even though Golovkin was able to finalize a deal Wednesday for a lucrative rematch against Canelo Alvarez, Golovkin expects to face Saunders in his following fight. Golovkin had a deal in place to face Saunders if negotiations with Alvarez’s handlers didn’t result in a completed deal by the Wednesday deadline issued by Golden Boy Promotions.